ELKHART LAKE, Wis., (Aug. 20, 2006) -- Tommy Archer, of Duluth,
Minn., captured his first SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT
Championship win of 2006 in a race that shuffled the season points at the
Road America Generac 500 weekend. Lawson Aschenbach, of Gaithersburg,
Md., and Leighton Reese, of Minnetonka, Minn., completed the top three.

Starting from his second pole of the season in the No. 5 c3controls/Dodge
Motorsports Dodge Viper, Archer got the holeshot off the standing start
and was never seriously challenged for the lead en route to his sixth
career victory, and first since St. Petersburg in 2005. Archer beat
Aschenbach to the checkered flag by 1.028 seconds, averaging 90.399 mph
in a race that was slowed by one caution.

"Autohaus Motorsports picked me up six weeks before the season
started and this is only my fourth race with the two guys that work on my
car," Archer said. "It was rewarding this weekend because we
came here expecting to be somewhat competitive and we've surprised
even ourselves in qualifying. The car just worked good and we made some
adjustments last night. The crew is now starting to understand what I
need and that little adjustments mean big things, even though it's
a big car. We just keep working hard at it and I talked to them during
the race and I told them after the race a couple more things we've
gotta do to keep making ourselves better. I think for the team,
it's a pretty big high.

"It feels good to be here and win close to home. I have family
here. I think this is the first race in fifteen or sixteen years that my
mother has been to a race."

For the fifth time in seven races, the Drivers' Championship
shifted at the top, and Aschenbach is back into the lead for the third
time. After starting alongside Archer in his No. 66 AXA Financial Porsche
911 GT3, the 22-year old Piloti Rookie of the Year candidate followed the
red Viper for the entire race, but never had enough to make a bid for the
lead.

"It was a good run," Aschenbach said. "I had a bit of a
wheel-spin problem on the start, so it put me behind. I thought I might
be able to jump ahead of Tommy [Archer] on the start, but it just
wasn't going to happen. I settled in behind him, and I knew the
both of us were going to push pretty hard at the beginning and save our
tires toward the middle of the race and go again at the end. We just
didn't have anything for him [Archer]. The places that I was
quicker weren't quite the places I needed to be quicker, but
we'll take the finish, we'll take the point lead and
we'll go to the next few races and see if we can keep it up
there."

The race, which started 15 minutes late owing to a cleanup from an
earlier session, had its own cleanup period, as Adel Elsayed, of Boonton,
N.J., spun his Viper exiting the famed Kink, struck the right side wall
and then was t-boned by the Viper GTS of Mike Hartley, of Cherry Hill,
N.J. While both cars sustained heavy damage, neither driver was injured.

On the ensuing lap-seven restart, Reese, who had started fourth in his
No. 6 Banner Engineering Chevrolet Corvette C6, made a move past the No.
64 AXA Financial/Cavenas Elevators Porsche 911 GT3 of Ricardo Imery for
third going into turn five. The move earned Reese the B&M Oil Coolers
Coolest Move of the Race.

From there, Reese was able to close on the two leaders and the trio ran
together for the next 10 laps. In the closing laps, Archer and Aschenbach
used some speed they'd reserved throughout the race, and Reese fell
behind a bit. However, the driver who has been on the pole and battled
for the lead at times this season was thrilled with his third place
finish--the only finish for him in five races this year.

"It's always a thrill to be on the podium, we're not
fighting for a championship this year but it's been an awfully
frustrating haul," Reese said. "We've had a couple
breakages and a couple of times we got crashed out when we've had
really good hardware, really good race cars. I'm just thrilled for
the people from Banner Engineering that we could give them a little TV
time and we entertained a lot of guests here this weekend, so this is all
icing on the cake."

Aschenbach now leads the Drivers' Championship by six points (173
to 167) over Lou Gigliotti, who entered the weekend in the lead but
finished 14th. Pilgrim dropped one position, from second to third, with
162, followed by Imery (152) and McCann (147). Dodge made up ground in
the SCCA SPEED GT Manufacturers' Championship Presented by RACER
Magazine, and now trails Porsche by five, 45 to 40. Cadillac dropped one
position to third, with 35, and Chevrolet is still well within striking
distance, with 34.

The series next travels to Canada's Mosport International Raceway,
a race that featured a battle for the win between Cadillac and Corvette
in 2005, in two weeks time, Sept. 1-3.